Business Process Engineering
Location: US, CA, Petaluma
Employment type: Contract
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Function: Information Technology

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Job description:
Title : Business Process EngineeringLocation: Petaluma / Carlsbad, CADuration : contract to hire General Summary: Working as a critical member of a specialist team, the Business Process Engineer (BPE) is responsible for leading projects that establish or transform business processes and systems with the goal of universalizing standard operating procedures across all companies within the Technology Solutions Group (and Nortek where applicable). With lean practices in mind, this role will lead all aspects of process-centric integrated management with an emphasis on the analysis and design of workflows and best practices within the organization. Essential Functions:Incorporate Nortek mandated processes and policies into Group and companiesDevelop universal Group-level business processes that leverage current and future business applicationsAnalyze techniques and procedures to improve the current business processes, ensure data quality, and possibly leverage automation tools.Create business process models and artifacts of current processes for cross-departmental and cross-partner procedures and relationshipsAlign user requirements, their strategies and their goals to improve business process workflows that sync with corporate initiativesBuild consensus among the different stakeholders on the “as-is" and “to-be" process modelsWork with project teams and stakeholders to measure current performance and identify improvement opportunities that positively impact Group and company performance.Provide insight and expertise on effective business best practices to project teams and stakeholders.Other Responsibilities:Perform cost estimating, scoping, and assist with scheduling for lean and process improvement projectsOwn business process redesign concepts with an emphasis on process improvement initiativesAdvise on best practices regarding information access, workflow and collaborationDevelop universal performance metrics focused on earned value management techniques Supervisory Responsibilities: None  

Requirements:
Qualifications:Undergraduate degree required; Masters level a plusTwo years of previous experience working with technical applications and/or information systems, or equivalent – NetSuite highly preferredSome project management skills, with an ability to organize and execute in a situation where team members and stakeholders are outside of the formal span of controlExperienced in application software project management principals and a working vocabulary of basic IT terms preferredSolid planning, organizational and some leadership skillsStrong presentation skills; ability to summarize, present and discuss strategies and options in order to come up with the best alternative for the businessExcellent written and oral communication skills; ability to communicate with all levels of the organizationAbility to navigate in a highly “matrixed” organization effectively and motivate team members within that environmentExperience with Microsoft Office Suite of products; including Visio requiredAble to assimilate knowledge of NetSuite OneWorld and other applications preferred #PHONE_2ac528ccbb34d21f4dc8db915d554586d41d7a7ac25137cb846ab39f153705af#

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